Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)

Wed Jan 24 23:02:39 UTC 2001

> From: Craig Partridge [mailto:craig at aland.bbn.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:33 PM
> 
> In message <3A6F3FB8.FA526852 at senie.com>, Daniel Senie writes:
> 
> >Looking at traces to Microsoft's DNS servers (which are all hosted on
> >the same ISP backbone, bad idea) shows 50% packet loss right now from
> >ATT Broadband. It's possible the servers will actually answer DNS
> >queries, but the protocols don't survive all that well in the face of
> >50% or greater packet loss.
> 
> Past evidence (like times in 1987 and 1988 when we ran the DNS over
> links with 50% loss and higher, and experience on the 
> bottlenecked trans
> Atlantic cable a few years back) suggests the DNS works pretty well
> with high loss regimes.

s/pretty/amazingly/